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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[broderip 
British Ornithologists’ Union (Committee of) 
This Committee originally consisted of Dr. P. L. Sclater, 
0. Salvin, F. Ducane Goodman, H. E. Dresser, H. Seebohm, 
and H. T. Wharton, and arose out of Dr. Sclater’s proposal 
at the Annual General Meeting of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union, May 15, 1878, that a Committee should be appointed 
to draw up a list of British birds in accordance with the 
most approved principles of modern nomenclature. Prof. 
Newton was also asked to serve, but subsequently excused 
himself. 
The first meeting was held on June 4, 1878, when Dr. 
Sclater was elected Chairman, and H. T. Wharton Secretary 
and General Editor. On August 12, 1879, Howard Saunders 
and Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe were added to the Committee. 
The work of preparing the various portions of the list was 
undertaken by different members of the Committee, but the 
whole was revised during the seventy -one meetings the 
Committee held. 1 
1883. A List of British Birds, compiled by a Committee of the British 
Ornithologists’ Union. London : 1883. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxxi + pp. 229. 
British Museum 
See under Gray (G. R.) and Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.) 
Broderip (William John), 1789-1859 
Broderip, by profession a lawyer, by instinct a naturalist, 
was born at Bristol, November 21, 1789, being the eldest 
son of William Broderip, surgeon, of that city. He graduated 
B.A. at Oxford in 1812, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s 
Inn in 1817. He ultimately became a Metropolitan police- 
magistrate, first at the Thames Police Court and after- 
wards at Westminster. In his later years he was Librarian 
at Gray’s Inn. All his life he was an enthusiastic collector 
1 A new edition of the List brought up to date appeared in 1915, but cannot be 
dealt with here. 
